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Comment #23951873
Easy: restore from backups.
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Comment #23723198
It's pretty sad how Airbus defines themselves in comparison to Boeing, and Europeans define themselves in comparison to Americans in general. They don't have much identity of their…
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Comment #23723193
>Not all campaigns of slaying sacred cows are the same Yeah. Your sacred cows are not OK to ridicule, but when it's The Other, definitely their sacred cows should be ridiculed, and…
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Comment #23723173
Banning MTG cards is absolutely cancel culture in action, and is a completely indefensible act. Anyone who supports it is supporting cancel culture. Stone-throwing Devils isn't a r…
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Comment #23718044
The number of McDonald's in Europe makes me doubt your words. In fact, here we are at visible status markers again. "My ingroup does this high status display, but your ingroup (my …
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Comment #23718013
As if there is any difference. Whomever can pay 4x the price of a ticket is going to be someone distasteful. Oh wait, are you that far up the hierarchy that there's a meaningful di…
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Comment #23717926
Cancel culture cancelled. Good luck getting your next job if you have Paw Patrol on your resume. Magic: the Gathering banned the card "Stone-throwing Devils" because it reminds peo…
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Comment #23717901
Nobody was interested in what mass murderers have to say. It just inspires more mass murderers. Did anyone read the manifesto of the New Zealand mosque killer? It was censored for …
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Comment #23717863
Slaying sacred cows is all fun and games and everyone loves South Park for it. Right up until the point at which your own sacred cows are slaughtered. Then suddenly it's not funny …
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Comment #23717816
Artistic value? With the ugly hump? That hump isn't just physically ugly, it's socially ugly as well. It is where the elites congregate. Anything that diminishes their status relat…
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Comment #23717795
No way, those things will be still flying 50 years from now. They hit a sweet spot in economical flying.
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Comment #23717780
The Concorde was done in by fuel prices, and because it was a small aircraft. I visited one in a museum and it was claustrophobic. Also nobody should be sorry that elites have to s…
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Comment #23717406
This is them displaying high status among their peer group. YOU see it as a low status marker because you're higher than them. Being able to look down on people is a sure sign of b…
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Comment #23717110
OK, we humans don't know each other, so visible status markers are very important. Status is super important to us, even if we deny it is (anyone who says so already has high statu…
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Comment #23716526
That's the new thing. When a film doesn't agree with the reviewer's political biases, he never admits it. Instead, the movie is terrible and nobody should see it. Remember Joker an…
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Comment #23716443
So they need to retrain for another job. Technological unemployment is here to stay. If people in another country can make food that is better and cheaper, well that's globalism.
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Comment #23716427
You're really going to say a professor at Harvard and a bucktoothed West Virginia hillbilly are of the same worth? https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/tharris00/rednecks/t...
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Comment #23716363
Being of low status, avoiding markers of low status is extremely important. You're not low status, so you can freely display such markers with no fear that anyone would conclude th…
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Comment #23716288
These are people who thought South Park was on "their" side, only to get ridiculed by South Park. Thus they feel bitter and have to lash out. They don't realize that they are the a…
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Comment #23696436
Fuck vim. vi 4 lyfe!
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Comment #23685185
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Comment #23685149
These 70s radicals never went to prison, and today they run our universities. Do you not know about the Long March through the institutions? Where do you think Critical Theory came…
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Comment #23684799
Who??? Who sees the US as a "guiding light"? Nobody, that's who. I don't know if you've been paying attention to the news, but the US' reputation is in the toilet. Racism, murder, …
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Comment #23684709
Since when did conservatives use Tumblr? Same reason as Facebook: advertisers don't want their ads shown next to controversial content. As a matter of fact, the LGBTQIA+ communitie…